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Brendan

"The most wonderful example of caring chaos you could meet. Limitless patience with people...but not as well organised as today"
Martin

"Without them, people like me would have neither direction nor hope. We all fall. We all make mistakes."
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UCC's Cork Simon Christmas Jumper Day

We want to make Christmas extra special this year!

We're organising a Cork Simon Christmas Jumper Day in support of people experiencing homelessness here in Cork.

Please join us in spreading the Jumper Joy - where ever you may be. Let's work together to help fight homelessness here in Cork this Christmas.
Viatris LI Cork Simon Christmas Jumper Day!!!

We want to make Christmas extra special this year!
Site QC are organising a Cork Simon Christmas Jumper Day in support of people experiencing homelessness here in Cork.

Please join me in spreading the Jumper Joy - where ever you may be. Let's work together to help fight homelessness here in Cork this Christmas.

Donate

It's been a hard year and now we face a cold, hard winter. But you can make sure everyone who calls Cork home has a home this Christmas. Will you give a Christmas gift today?
Part time volunteering

Volunteers founded Cork Simon almost 50 years ago and remain at the heart our community. Part-time volunteers are active in everything Cork Simon does, from sitting on our Board of Directors to helping us to fundraise to supporting people to develop life skills such as cooking, literacy and numeracy.
Cork Simon Women's Little Christmas Raffle

We may not be able to get together in the traditional way this Women’s Little Christmas. But our Cork traditions never give-up. Buy a ticket for the Cork Simon Women’s little Christmas Raffle as a gift for someone you love this Christmas. You’ll be keeping the tradition alive and you’ll be helping make sure men and women experiencing homelessness here in Cork and turning to us for help get the support they need.
Brendan

"The most wonderful example of caring chaos you could meet. Limitless patience with people...but not as well organised as today"
Christmas Jumper Day

Where’s me Jumper?! Thousands of you here in Cork donned your Christmas jumpers, dazzle and tinsel bringing Jumper Joy to your home, office, school and online. Vets. Students. Teachers. Lecturers. Hotel s Let's make Christmas extra special this year.
Full time volunteering

Full-Time Volunteers from Ireland and around the world come to Cork Simon to work alongside our skilled staff at all of our services. Full-Time Volunteers typically spend nine to twelve months at Cork Simon and are an integral part of the team, bringing their skills, energy and diversity to the work we do.
Work with us

Cork Simon Community is committed to equality of opportunity in all our recruitment.
Gifts in wills

If you know Cork, you know that we live in a caring community. That sense of belonging, that feeling of community was here before all of us – and will be here long after us. An increasing number of our donors are choosing to remember Cork Simon in their Will – shaping a brighter future and continuing to care for people who are homeless in our community.
Factsheets

View the latest monthly emergency accommodation figures from the Department of Housing, and download the Cork Homeless Forum Directory of Services for people experiencing homelessness and their Guide to Emergency Homeless Services in Cork.
High-support housing

Our High-Support Houses throughout Cork provide intensive levels of round-the-clock care every day for men and women whose health and other personal support needs are such that living independently is not currently sustainable.

Sponsor a Room

As a Room Sponsor you will be helping to save lives. You give a monthly gift, at an amount you can afford, to provide someone who is homeless with a safe room of their own, everything that goes with that, and a pathway to move into independent living. Believing in people. Read more

Donate

It's been a hard year and now we face a cold, hard winter. But you can make sure everyone who calls Cork home has a home this Christmas. Will you give a Christmas gift today? Read more

Donate

50 Faces of Cork Simon

50 Years in the making, decades in the refining. 50 Faces - one per week, representing the thousands of men and women who make us what we are: people believing in people. These are their words, their stories, our experience. Read more